Baccharis

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Baccharis - shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion controlgenus Baccharisasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsaster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinniaBaccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tuftsBaccharis viminea, mule fat - California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deerBaccharis pilularis, chaparral broom, coyote brush, coyote bush, kidney wort - widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle